Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turned down one of Harry Truman's prize reorganization plans, to create a tenth Cabinet post and a new Department of Welfare, principally on the grounds that politically ambitious Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing would get the job and use his Cabinet rank to push his ideas on national health insurance...
From conditions that gave the word "sweat shop" to the language, it has won the most complete welfare program in the U.S. From a snarl of crafts and nationalities, from a rank & file in which women (considered unreliable by organized labor) outnumber men three to one, it has built one of the nation's strongest industrial unions. From chaotic conditions, where there was a strike with every season, it has brought order. It has had no major strike in 15 years...
What have atheists in common with saints? A great deal, suggests top-rank Roman Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain, now teaching at Princeton, in the current issue of the quarterly Review of Politics. "The genuine, absolute atheist, with all his sincerity and devotion," he concludes, "is but an abortive saint and, at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist...
...employee of the Allied Mission which supervised Greek elections. His progress was noisy. In Rome he got into a street argument with a U.S. Air Forces officer, Brig. General William L. Lee, and was slapped in the face for his pains. (The general was shortly reduced in rank.) In Athens Maragon announced himself as Harry Truman's great friend, waved a picture of himself and the President, and was finally ordered home as a nuisance...
Last month, Zaim legalized his coup by getting himself "elected" President of the Syrian Republic. He celebrated his victory by promoting himself to the rank of marshal and holding a reception for the diplomatic corps...